Douglas Harlow Shoemaker (June 18, 1905 – February 1985) was the last Chief Engineer

Chief Engineer

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 of the Northern Pacific Railway

Northern Pacific Railway

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Biography

On October 1929 he became a draftsman, Bridge Department, Northern Pacific, until May 1932; May 1932 to June 1933, inspector, Minnesota Highway Department; June 1933 to 1935, superintendent and estimator, Nolan Brothers, Incorporated, contractors, Minneapolis; June, 1935, to May, 1936, partner with Industrial Contracting Company, bridge contractors; May, 1936, Northern Pacific, as draftsman, Bridge Department; August 1936 to October, 1940, instrumentman, inspector, district engineer; October 1940 to February 1941, draftsman, Bridge Department; February 1941, to June 1942, division engineer, Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota

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; June 1942 to December 1943, division engineer, Glendive, Montana

Glendive, Montana

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; December 1943, to June, 1945, assistant engineer, construction of Bozeman Tunnel; June 1945 to December 1947, assistant engineer, location and construction of line change; December 1947 to May, 1949, office engineer, St. Paul; May 1949, to February 1951, principal assistant engineer, St. Paul; February 1951 to March 1953, district engineer, St. Paul; March 1953 to April 1956, assistant chief engineer, St. Paul; August 1956 to April 1958, special assistant, Executive Department; April 1958 to May 1962, assistant chief engineer; May 1962—, chief engineer.

He died in February 1985 in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Memberships

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Civil Engineers

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 (Northwest Section); American Railway Engineering Association (Committee Four); Engineer’s Society of St. Paul; Northwest Maintenance-of-Way Club;

Source

• Directory – American Society of Civil Engineers, 1976
• Osthoff, Frederick C., editor. Who’s Who in Railroading, 1968 edition. New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1968, p. 449.